While using PhpStorm I tried to use remote PHP interpreter on my dev virtual machine. As I’m big openSUSE fan and user I have openSUSE Leap 42.1 as my development machine. Unfortunately there is no Xdebug for PHP distributed by default.

However, there is repository available, so it’s easy to add this missing component to my system.

In previous article I described how-to Deploy Parsoid on openSUSE 13.1 (which turns out to be quite a challenging task). Parsoid is component required for VisualEditor. Now it’s time for VisualEditor deployment.

Downloading VisualEditor

At the moment, when I’m doing deployment, stable version of MediaWiki is 1.24.2. VisualEditor is an extension written for certain version of MediaWiki, hence we can’t just download latest version and use it. It has to be specific release for specific MediaWiki version.

From now on you can enjoy VisualEditor until you decide to upgrade to newer version of MediaWiki.
Prior to that I would suggest to check if there is VisualEditor available for new release and test it prior to live deployments.